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Descriptions of some uncharacterized species of CuiocEiiiD.i: ; hy 

 Joseph S. Baly, F.L.S., &c. 



Lema Kirbyi. 



Oblonga, fiilva, nitida, antennis infuscatis, thorace maculis 

 irregularibus quatuor, mesosterno macula iitriuque, metastemo 

 medio f emorumqi;e posticorum quatuor macula auticii uigro-piceis ; 

 thorace sub-cyliudrico, dorso couvexo, longitudiue vix latiori ; 

 lateribus prope medium profunde constrictis, disco basi late 

 transversim depresso, aiitice convexo, minute punctato ; elytris 

 tliorace latioribus, sat profunde punctato-striatis, punctis apiceni 

 versus minus fortiter impressis, interspatiis planis, ad apicem 

 convexiusculis ; plaga magna discoidali et utrinque un^i pone 

 medium sub-trigouata, nigro-piceis. Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. Sierra Leone ; a single specimen formerly in the collec- 

 tion ol; the Rev. W. Kirby. 



Neck deeply constricted, face trigonate, front impressed Avith 

 a small fovea, immediately in front of which is a small shallow 

 tran-^verse impression ; antennse filiform, nearly three- fourths 

 the length of the body, obscure ilavous at the base, stained 

 outwardly with fuscous. Thorax slightly broader than long ; 

 sides strongly constricted, the apex of the constriction obtuse ; 

 above convex, broadly and abruptly depressed at the base, the 

 depression extending from side to side, entirely across the thorax, 

 disc finely punctured, stained on either side with two irregular 

 nigro-piceous spots. Scutellum sub-quadrangular, its apex 

 slightly emarginate. Elytra much broader than the thoi-ax, 

 convex, not distinctly excavated below the basilar space, strongly 

 and deeply punctate-striate, the ninth stria entire, the puncturing 

 finer and less deeply impressed towards the apex ; interspaces 

 plane, slightly convex at the apex, where the stri^ themselves 

 are distinctly sulcate. 



Lema Livingstoni. 



Auguste ol^longa, sub-cylindrica, picea, nitida, subtus dense 

 aureo-sericea ; capite pedibusque uigro-piceis, femoribus, apice 

 exceptis, obscure fulvis ; antennis nigris, articulo basah sordide 



